Hi folks,
I just wanted to drop a couple of words explaining what happened
recently with me, which should mostly be obvious now that you heard of
John's death. As you all know, ipython and matplotlib have a close
and productive relationship; while some of this is due to technical
reasons, it is also true that the friendship between John and I helped
keep things moving.
John and I were very close friends, and from the moment I heard of his
diagnosis (~ one month ago) I spent a significant amount of time
trying to help in various ways; this meant scrapping most of my
IPython bandwidth. Then as things took a turn for the worse, I flew
to Chicago and spent the last two weeks there, providing any
assistance I could to John and his family.
I did update via private email the core devs, and I want to thank
everyone who has pitched in really hard to keep things moving.
IPython will only thrive when none of us is a bottleneck, and I'm
thrilled to see that our team is healthy enough to manage a situation
like this (which also coincided with Brian being mostly offline due to
complicated moving logistics).
I am now back to a regular workflow, but as you can imagine the
backlog of a 2+ weeks unplanned work blackout is pretty nasty, and it
will take me a while to get back on top of things here.
Anyway, I promised in a recent thread that I'd explain why I wasn't
answering anything in a useful way...
Thanks again to everyone who has pitched in. And please
tweet/blog/etc the link to the John Hunter Memorial Fund:
http://numfocus.org/johnhunter
so that we can make it as successful as possible.
Matthias suggested adding a link to that on our main page, and I think
it's a great idea. The more visibility we can give this, the better.
Cheers,
f